Dictation

Quick meaning: Dictation is a noun meaning (countable, uncountable) Dictating, the process of speaking for someone else to write down the words.

Meaning

(countable, uncountable) Dictating, the process of speaking for someone else to write down the words.

More Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) An activity in school where the teacher reads a passage aloud and the students write it down.
2. (countable) The act of ordering or commanding.
3. (uncountable) Orders given in an overbearing manner.

Example Sentences

His habit, even with friends, was that of dictation.

We had reading and geography and Canadian history and dictation today.

Since I learned shorthand, I can take dictation at eighty words a minute.

...jurors in England have formerly understood it to be their right and duty to judge only according to their consciences, and not to submit to any dictation from the court, either as to law or fact.

Word Forms

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Synonyms for dictation

Depending on context, synonyms include command, bid, bidding.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include command, bidding, bid, indoctrination, delivered, initiation.

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